$MTRN (Materion Corporation)

$MTRN said its Advanced Materials business segment is currently in discussions with Heraeus Group of Hanau, Germany regarding an acquisition by Materion of the Heraeus high-performance target materials business. There can be no assurance that a definitive agreement will be entered into or that a transaction will be consummated.

Qatar Airways has struck a deal with $BA valued at $2.2Bil for the purchase of six Boeing aircraft. The order includes two 747-8 Freighters and four long-haul passenger 777-300ERs. The airline currently operates a fleet of nearly 100 Boeing widebody airplanes and has more than 100 additional Boeing airplanes on order.

$VSAT completed the Critical Design Review (CDR) milestones for the ViaSat-3 class spacecraft. The payload CDR was successfully completed last week, and when combined with the successful bus CDR, conducted with $BA in mid-August, $VSAT and $BA are now moving forward with building, integrating and testing the first two satellites.

$A said its Dako PD-L1 IHC 22C3 pharmDx assay has an expanded
label approved by the US FDA to aid in identifying gastric or GEJ
adenocarcinoma patients for treatment with KEYTRUDA, an anti-PD-1 therapy
manufactured by $MRK. These approvals mean these patients have the possibility
of receiving a targeted anti-PD-L1 immunotherapy.

$TGI signed an agreement with $BA to continue their longstanding partnership to provide the environmental control systems (ECS) ducting and floor panels utilized on Boeing’s 737 (legacy and MAX), 767, 777X and 787 airplanes. The extensions will cover deliveries of these composite interior components into the next decade.

$BA and Japan Airlines (JAL) announced an order for four 787-8 Dreamliners. The order, which was attributed to an unidentified customer, is valued at more than $900MM at current list prices and will expand JAL's Dreamliner fleet to 49 airplanes. The carrier is expected to receive its 35th Dreamliner, a 787-9 later this week.

$A said FDA has approved the cancer diagnostic known as PD-L1 IHC 28-8 pharmDx for use in cases of urothelial carcinoma and of squamous cell carcinoma of the head and neck. The test had previously been approved for melanoma as well as non-squamous, non-small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC).

$MSA, a safety equipment manufacturer, has elected Bob Leenen as President, MSA International. Leenen succeeds Ronald Herring who will be retiring in Oct. He will be responsible for business interests outside of North America and South America, and based in Rapperswil-Jona, Switzerland.

$ITRI will acquire all outstanding shares of $SSNI for $16.25 per share in cash. The transaction is valued at approx $830MM, net of $118MM of Silver Spring's cash. This represents a premium of 25% to Silver Spring's closing price on Sept 15, 2017. Itron sees about $50MM in annualized cost synergies within three years of completing the deal.

Aerospace company $BA said it will be procuring majority of
the aircraft structures and components required for building its T-X Air Force
training jet from $TGI. Once the Air
Force confirms the contract, Triumph’s aerospace structures unit in Texas will supply
the wing, vertical tail and horizontal tail structures.

$NUE, manufacturer of steel products, announced that its BoD approved a steel bar micro mill project and is considering five states, including Nebraska, Kansas, Missouri, South Carolina and Florida, for the project. The Board also gave the nod for the expansion of its existing merchant bar operations in either Illinois or Ohio.

Steel company $NUE has elected Lloyd J Austin III, a retired
US Army General, to its BoD, effective September 18, 2017. General Austin
served as the commander of US Central Command, responsible for military strategy
in the 20-country Central Region, from 2013 until his retirement in March 2016.

Aerospace giant $BA has been awarded a $600MM contract by Air Force for preliminary design work on presidential planes. The company will be modifying two 747-8 jetliners, which will replace the two aging 747-200 presidential aircrafts. Engineering and Manufacturing Development contract for Air Force One is expected to be awarded in summer of 2018.

$BA submitted its bid for its MH-139 helicopter to replace the Air Force's aging Huey fleet. $BA claims that MH-139 will provide $1Bil in savings to Air Force over its 30-year lifecycle. Boeing is teaming up with Italy's Leonardo to offer a militarized version of the latter's commercial AW139. The 84-helicopter contract award is expected in 2018.

Malaysian national carrier Malaysia Airlines inked a MoU with $BA for 16 airplanes. The deal which is worth about $3Bil consists of eight 787-9 Dreamliners and eight 737 MAX 8s. This marks a victory for $BA because the national carrier was in talks with its European rival Airbus earlier this year, which fell through due to disagreements on pricing.

Satellite fleet operator SES has awarded $BA to design and build 7 new satellites. The medium earth orbit (MEO) satellites will be part of SES' O3b mPOWER network, which will be launched starting in 2021. $BA clinched the deal from Thales Alenia Space, which has been the prime contractor for O3b.